Mold in a holiday home
What a closed property does over a season, what to check the day you arrive, and how to get it dealt with without flying over.
Read the guideWritten for owners who are not here
A large share of our work comes from owners who are somewhere else when the problem appears. A tenant sends a photo, a neighbour mentions a smell, or the shutters come off in spring and the cellar wall is black.
These guides are written for that situation rather than for someone standing in front of the wall with a brush. They say plainly what you can settle by message and what genuinely needs someone on site.
Each one starts from a real situation.
What a closed property does over a season, what to check the day you arrive, and how to get it dealt with without flying over.
Read the guideTelling condensation from a structural fault, what to document, and how to handle it with a tenant without it turning into a dispute.
Read the guideSend a photo of the affected area and the town. We reply with the rate, the surface counted and the final figure, before anyone travels. If it sorts itself out without us, we say that too.